Our 375g reef tank build & fish room

Lytehouse said:
WOW, you have some things really starting to grow in. Nice.

Thanks for the pic updates.
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Thank you, we are very pleased with the growth...
We are still battling the cayno and diatoms pest...
We did a 20% water change out today.......
I guess we will have to do a change out every week until it goes away.....
 
pic 1:
I have never known the name of this chalice, sorry, I was hoping someone here could help with that... I wish I could take a better picture, it looks much nicer in person......
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I have a big piece of this one and the closest ID I got was convict challice. It has changed a bit in color since this pic and looks more like yours now.
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Sandy
I have Blue Line pumps for skimmer and return and they are quiet and powerful. Beautiful photos, the tank is looking great. I had the red cyano and diatom blooms but they went away inside a couple of weeks. I am running phosban though.
 
Alan,
We are looking the the Blue Line pumps now...
I want to make sure it will be able to "pick up" water the tank is 24" tall, and Ed wants to make some kind of PVC or flex tubing to go into the tank to remove water....
The mag pump is just not working.....

We are very pleased with the tank... It is so much easier to take care of 1 large tank, well we do have a 30g nano for the seahorses.. However that tank is sooooooooo easy...

I am running a phosban reactor with BRS GFO....
I'm not sure if some of the LR is leaching phosphates or what. I have tried to do a lot of different things. I really don't know what to do at this point except for,
Water changes, water changes, water changes.

If you can think of anything, please share! :D
 
edandsandy said:
If you can think of anything, please share! :D
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Sandy
I can't really. I had several clumps of red cyano and I tried maracyn but that didn't work. In the end I just got my tongs and pulled the clumps out. I have few red spots buried in the sand against the glass that are on the RH side which is where the sunroom windows are so I'm assuming it's light related.
The brown diatoms just went away -- no idea why other than it was a natural evolution of a new tank. Mine is almost six months old. Strange thing is that I only got the diatoms and red slime in the DT, my 55G and 30G fuges were clean.
 
I had an unusually long battle with cyano on startup... it lasted several months. I attributed it to the amount of detritius that was traped in the LR that I purchased. The LR was 3rd generation tank rock, and not everyones maintenance prior to mine was up to standard... once the rock stopped sheading, within a 2 or 3 week period cyano magically disapeared.

Tim
 
EnglishRebel said:
Sandy
I can't really. I had several clumps of red cyano and I tried maracyn but that didn't work. In the end I just got my tongs and pulled the clumps out. I have few red spots buried in the sand against the glass that are on the RH side which is where the sunroom windows are so I'm assuming it's light related.
The brown diatoms just went away -- no idea why other than it was a natural evolution of a new tank. Mine is almost six months old. Strange thing is that I only got the diatoms and red slime in the DT, my 55G and 30G fuges were clean.
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Alan,
I think I'm just cursed :sad1:
We are barley feeding the fish, we are feeding pellets now, frozen 1-2 x a week and we still have diatoms & cyano.
We have so much water moving in the DT, That I am soooo surprised we even have cyano. maybe we have so much flow "it" is moving the cyano :hmm1:
 
Hookup said:
I had an unusually long battle with cyano on startup... it lasted several months. I attributed it to the amount of detritius that was traped in the LR that I purchased. The LR was 3rd generation tank rock, and not everyones maintenance prior to mine was up to standard... once the rock stopped sheading, within a 2 or 3 week period cyano magically disapeared.

Tim
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Tim,
Some of my LR was from a FOWLR tank.... I am almost thinking the same thing as far as the maintenance goes.

I will continue doing a 20% weekly water change out, maybe this will end the cycle soon.
 
Hi,

Great thread and thank you for the pics! I really love how your tank is filling in.

A thought on the cyano. I was battling it for 6 months or so (my tank is 10 months old) I was running GFO from BRS too in a Phosban reactor for those 6 months. I recently took my reactor offline (I know, scary!:eek1:) but ever since then the cyano receded and I have not seen hide nor hair of it since. I was not using the High Capacity GFO. Just the regular granules. Check in the Chemistry forum as I know there are a couple threads in there about GFO GIVING members tanks cyano. Just a thought. HTH and happy reefing!
 
Thanks LUVSPS,
I haven't seen that thread....
I have recently taken the GFO off-line. Still no improvement.
I am truly baffled at this point.
I think I will send a sample of water to a testing site and see what they have to say.
My next thought is to turn the lights off for a few days to see if that will help.
I really don't like dumping chemicals into the tank.
 
What seemed to help me the most was the following process.

I would suck up as much cyano as I could during a water change, then leave the lights out for 3 days while heavy-skimming (wet)... that would put it into control for about a week to 10 days.. then I'd have to repeat.

6 months of that really got to me... but everyone is happier now.
 
Hookup,
that looks like the direction we are headed in at this point.

I didn't turn the MH on at all yesterday, only the T5s...We went to the football game yesterday, by the time we got home, the lights were off. But, I could see the cayno was not so bad. We have changed the light cycle also....

I will do another water change out tomorrow.....
 
Well I decided to have a WAR against the diatom & cayno pest.
today I went to the LFS and picked up
40 snails
2 sea cucumber
1 tuxedo urchin

I hope this will help along with the water change outs.
 
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